Changing the law to ensure that no presidential pardon will undercut a state prosecution, the New York State Assembly approved a bill Tuesday to snip the so-called double-jeopardy loophole.
Read moreThat Paul Manafort committed crimes within Manhattan borders is by now indisputable. What divides experts, however, is whether the new state charges unveiled against the former Trump campaign chair can withstand a double-jeopardy challenge.
Read moreIn a case said to be watched closely by convicted Trump ally Paul Manafort, the Supreme Court justices appeared unlikely Thursday to overturn precedent that allows a person to face state and federal prosecution over the same criminal conduct.
Read moreThe Second Circuit upheld the 2016 conviction of fraudster Mikhail Zemlyansky after he unsuccessfully argued that double jeopardy applied to his Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act case involving a multi-million dollar insurance and securities fraud scheme.
Read moreBy a razor-thin margin, an accused safe robber who cried double jeopardy after fighting to have the charges against him drawn out over two trials lost his Supreme Court battle Friday.
Read moreA federal judge ruled Friday that two similar counts appearing on former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s indictment do not subject him to double jeopardy.
Read moreDisturbed by reports of how President Donald Trump plans to wield his expansive pardoning powers, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman called on lawmakers Wednesday to plug what he called a “double jeopardy loophole.”
Read moreRuling on a trio of double-jeopardy cases out of Italy, the European Court of Justice found that duplicative administrative and criminal proceedings for tax offenses are not necessarily proscribed by the principle ne bis in idem. One of the rulings does, however, call out Italy’s penalty scheme for market manipulation as possibly disproportionate.
Read moreThe Supreme Court seemed to offer sympathy but no relief Tuesday in a pair of cases involving double jeopardy and self-incrimination.
Read moreThe Supreme Court on Monday said it will take up the case of a Virginia man who says his conviction on a federal firearms charge was precluded by his acquittal on two related charges tried separately in the interest of protecting his right to a fair trial.
Read moreTaking aim at a test its courts have used to establish double jeopardy, New Jersey’s high court helped the state Tuesday shed its outlier status.
Read moreA federal judge ruled Monday that ex-LA County Sheriff Leroy Baca can’t wear a sheriff’s lapel badge in the second trial over obstruction of an FBI investigation into jailhouse abuses because it prejudices the government’s case, and also denied the former lawman’s bid to toss the case on double jeopardy grounds.
Read moreDouble jeopardy does not bar federal prosecutors from retrying a Puerto Rican lawmaker who successfully appealed a mixed verdict on bribery charges.
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